The number of bowls floated by French sound artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot in three pools at New York's Park Avenue Armory which are knocked together by water jets to make music. The show, called Clinamen, runs to August 2.

It has been attacked with a hammer, condemned as blasphemous and sparked a round of cuts in US arts funding and now one of the most controversial artworks of the 1980s is going back on show.

Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, a photograph of a small plastic crucifix submerged in a tank of the artist's urine, will be exhibited at the Beaverbrook Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, from Friday.

The work includes the damage caused in a hammer attack in France 15 years ago which has never been repaired at the insistence of the artist and its owner, collector Bob Rennie.

It first sparked a storm of protest when it was shown in the United States in 1989 and it emerged Serrano had been paid by the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Arts which subsequently had its budget cut.

A decade later, an attempt to show it at Australia's National Gallery of Victoria was cancelled after protests and legal action by the then Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne.

It is on show along with works by Salvador Dali at the Beaverbrook until November 29.

The heirs of a Jewish art collector have reclaimed one of his works stolen by the Nazis after it was found in the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels.

The Absinthe Drinker by Felicien Rops is the thirtieth work returned to the descendants of Armand Dorville from institutions around the world.

A library spokesman said it had been unaware the work, which it had bought in "good faith" in 1968, was stolen.

Dorville's collection, which also included work by Renoir and Degas, was sold in 1942 at an auction supervised by the German army.

Art historian Soyoung Yoon has been appointed director of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program a year after it was controversially suspended.

A former director of the fine arts program at the New School in New York, she replaces Sara Nadal-Melsio whose role was terminated last year in the fallout from the cancellation of a performance inspired by the conflict in the Middle East.

The program, whose alumni include Jenny Holzer, Julian Schnabel and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, was launched in 1968 by Ron Clark who endorsed her appointment saying it gave him "full confidence in the program’s future".

It was suspended last year after the cancellation of a performance about Palestinian mourning - a move the New York museum defended on the grounds the work promoted the "imagery of violence" - prompting hundreds of students and artists to sign an open letter in protest.

1 - San Francisco's controversial Vaillancourt Fountain will live on in the design for the $40 million revamp of the city's Embarcadero Plaza. The plan includes "a seating area that mimics the massive sculpture’s concrete arms" according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Its creator Armand Vaillancourt lost a legal bid to stop the city dismantling and removing the huge brutalist sculpture earlier this year.

2 - Venice has appointed lawyer Paolo Romor as its first councillor in charge of culture in 11 years. Mayor Simone Venturini, who announced the appointment, said he will continue to "oversee cultural strategies" and remain vice president of the biennale foundation.

3 - Omolola Coker has been named the winner of the first-ever Myma Art Prize following an exhibition of shortlisted artists at Yenwa Gallery in Lagos. She gets $5,000 and a fully funded three-month residency at Nosona Studios in Benin City, Nigeria.

4 - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) starts its long weekend of celebrations for its new David Geffen Galleries tomorrow. The five-day-long festival includes a block party on Saturday with an art parade organized by gallerist Jeffrey Deitch who planned the first one in New York 20 years ago.

5 - Annie Wallington has been appointed senior specialist, head of modern art at Phillips auction house in London. She previously worked at Christie's in its modern and 20th/21st century art department.